James Thurber Quotes
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I was shy. I was painfully shy, until fifth grade when I transferred to another school and befriended the class clown. And one day he was sick and I kinda stepped in for the class clown and I said, 'Wow, this is exciting, I'm a little bit nervous.'
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I read part of it all the way through.
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I think it's time we all agree that gender stereotypes are simply the confabulation of our own mind.
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We just here to do our job.
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The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.
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Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question.
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The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.
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Jesus is an example. We have other examples, including many of our ancestors as role models who understood the inner meaning of our orientation.
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I tend to like simple music. And clever, succinct lyrics. Songs that don't try to be more than they need to to be effective, to stir up something emotionally within you.
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I look out at the stadiums full of people and see them all knowing the words to songs I wrote. And curling their hair! I remember straightening my hair because I wanted to be like everybody else, and now the fact that anybody would emulate what I do? It's just funny. And wonderful.
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As a prosecutor, I got a paycheck for coming to work every day. I didn't get a promotion when I won, and I didn't get a demotion when I did a bad job.
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You should have high expectations for yourself and others should come second.
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I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.
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Overpaying the banks for their toxic assets could contribute capital, but that may not be politically feasible or attractive.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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I rarely meet a politician that I don't like personally. They are generally well endowed with charm. Therein lies the danger.
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The primary one being, like I said, I don't like rock 'n' roll piano.
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I loved wrestling in Philly. It was such an exciting time in my life. That really helped me grow and think differently. It was also just a lot of fun.
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I was kind of an unhappy kid. I always felt like a cynical New Yorker trapped in a little kid's body. I started to get some pretty bad anxiety disorders around puberty, which totally did not work with growing up a mile away from the beach. I started cutting my own hair.
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Genuine expressions of emotion rarely persist longer than five seconds and almost never longer than 10. A fixed smile is likely to conceal anger, anxiety, or some other negative emotion.
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Life passes into pages if it passes into anything.
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Everyone talks about new love all the time, but there's so much to draw from when you've been in a longer relationship. It makes me stick my chest out a little bit. It's like, 'I know what you've been through, but you don't know what it's like over here.'
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It feels good when guys reach out to be inspired - and you have shown people an example of how you can come back and be better than you were before when adversity strikes; and when the world predicts the opposite, you show them you not only can be successful but be great.
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Love is blind, but desire just doesn't give a good goddam. sic
